PM Modi likely to convene meeting with all State CMs on July 27 as Unlock 2 deadline nears

As Unlock 2.0 comes to an end on July 30, sources report that PM Modi is likely to convene a meeting with all state Chief Ministers to discuss nation's Coronavirus (COVID-19) scenario. meeting is likely yo be held on July 27, report sources with Home Minister Amit Shah and Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla likely to attend meeting. Currently, India has 12,87,945 cases of which 4,10,135 active cases and 30,601 fatalities.

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Previous PM-CM meets

Earlier on June 16-17, Prime Minister interacted with state CMs on two different days in order to review situation a week after first reopening phase - 'Unlock 1'. After meeting, Ministry of Home Affairs issued an order that lockdown on containment zones will continue till July 31. guidelines of 'Unlock 2' prohibits opening of educational institutions, international air travel, metro rail, cinema halls, bars, auditoriums, swimming pools, gymnasiums, and large congregations and shortened night curfew timing from 10 PM to 5 AM.

PM Modi has held six conferences with all CMs amid Coronavirus pandemic. Previous meetings h all been to discuss nation's strategy to battle COVID-19 and h resulted in nation-wide lockdowns - last one with considerable relaxations. While all CMs h attended first one, Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan has sent a representative for past two meetings. Most CMs h aired ir greivances and have supported Centre's move to extend lockdown. 

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India's COVID scenario

While India's current lockdown is limited upto containment zones appealing to reopen India to boost ecomy, several states have imposed varying degrees of lockdown in cities with a higher number of cases - Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai, Guwahati, Thiruvananthapuram to name a few. International flights have been banned till August, while limited domestic flight movement has been extended by three more months. With a recovery rate of 63.45 per cent, India's case fatality rate has furr declined to 2.38 per cent.

India's COVID-19 case fatality rate drops to 2.38 pc; recovery rate rises to 63.34 pc

India also saw a record single-day spike of 49,310 cases while death-toll mounted to 30,601 with 740 new fatalities. A cumulative total of 1,54,28,170 samples have been tested for COVID-19 up to July 23, with 3,52,801 samples tested on Thursday. India conducts 11179.83 tests per million (TPM) and has 897 labs in government sector and 393 private labs. Moreover, two indigeus vaccines -  COVAXIN (ICMR-NIC with Bharat Biotech) and  ZyCov-D (Zydus Cilla) are undergoing phase-1 and 2 human trials after being fast-tracked by ICMR.

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